The moderates' Ulf Kristersson retains second place in the trust league, despite a statistically assured loss.
In October 2022, 37 percent of the respondents in the Novus trust survey stated that they had quite or a lot of trust in the M leader.
In January this year, the figure was 29 percent, a drop of 8 percentage points for the prime minister.
- I can't remember seeing this high mobility in such a short time.
On the other hand, it is a sign of the times.
We see very high voter mobility between the parties.
There is a high level of political conflict and strong polarization, says Novus CEO Torbjörn Sjöström.
All except Andersson lose
Compared to the survey in October, all party leaders except Magdalena Andersson are losing confidence.
The S leader remains at the same level as in October, with a support of 54 percent.
The declines are statistically secure for all but Johan Pehrson (L) and Per Bolund (MP), where the changes are within the margin of error.
Jimmie Åkesson (SD) drops from 32 to 27 percent, Annie Lööf (C) - who will step down as party leader next week - decreases from 30 to 26 percent, Nooshi Dadgostar (V) from 23 to 17 percent and Märta Stenevi (MP) from 12 to 9 percent.
The party leader who has lost the most, however, is Ebba Busch (KD), who goes from 29 to 20 percent.
The party leaders' trust is usually strongly linked to how many people sympathize with their party.
Succeeding in winning somewhat greater trust with those who think differently is difficult.
Two party leaders who have succeeded in this recently are Fredrik Reinfeldt (M) and Jonas Sjöstedt (V).
- Nooshi Dadgostar, for example, has lower trust figures than Jonas Sjöstedt had, even though the support for the party was similar.
What Sjöstedt succeeded in doing was that you didn't have to sympathize with the party leader in order to be able to respect what it stood for.
As it stands today, only Magdalena Andersson has succeeded, says Torbjörn Sjöström.